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Lecture Series

The Department Colloquium, instituted in 2010, is intended as a forum for debating visions and methods of the comparative study of literatures. Autumn and Winter lectures are delivered by comparatists affiliated with the University of Chicago. The outside speaker for the Spring lecture is chosen by graduate students in the Comparative Literature Department.

Spring 2016Aamir Mufti, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles“Strangers in Europa: Migrants and the Crisis of Unification.”

Winter 2015Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Comparative Literature Modern Hebrew and German-Jewish literature"Weltliteratur in Jerusalem: Zionism, Humanism and the Institutions of Comparative Literature"

Richard Jean So, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago"The Invention of the Global MFA"

Spring 2015Steven Moore [Independent Scholar]"Rethinking the History of the Novel"

Winter 2015Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of French & Italian, Stanford University"Our Broad Present": About Origins and Funktion of a Reflection About Time

Leah Feldman, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago"Reading on the Threshold: a Russian Prophet in Azeri Translations"

Spring 2013Emily Apter, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University"Lexilalia: On Translating a Dictionary of Untranslatable Philosophical Terms." Listen to the lecture HERE.

Winter 2013Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School and Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago"Translating the Translation of Desires: Eros, Mysticism, and Encounter in Turn of the 6th/12th-century Mecca"

Autumn 2012Sascha Ebeling, Associate Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago"The Novel and Empire in Europe and Asia, c.1850 to 1930"

Autumn 2010Jas’ Elsner, Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago"Picturesque and Sublime: Impacts of Pausanias in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain"